Go here and vote for Steve McCoy’s blog, Reformissionary. Should Steve win this popularity contest all proceeds will go to getting Tim Keller’s book, Reason for God, into the hands of those who need it. How cool is that?! I think the other bloggers said they were going to buy Why We’re Not Emergent and [...]
A few weeks ago I shared a paradigm for our church called The Table, The Pulpit and the Square. Though each picture represents a different environment of church life (the home, the gathered church and the public square) and encompasses all we do as a church, all I shared at the time was how it [...]
Last night while waiting for a meeting I finally started in on Mark Dever’s The Gospel and Personal Evangelism. So far, really good stuff. Encouraging. In the first chapter Mark gives us 12 steps that can help us begin to shake off the complacency and begin sharing the gospel. I’ll summarize them, but you’d do [...]
Just thought I’d share the joy. I know people like Tom and Kevin will be happy for me.
My six year old daughter took notes while I preached on Good Friday.
Behold, the old have gone and the new have come! Last summer I picked up my first pair of running shoes, and logged over 350 miles on them. They were at the end of their life-cycle so I stopped by our local running store to pick up a new (and better) pair.
Some stuff worth checking out around the web.
Tom Ascol on Truth Happens.
“This video by Linux illustrates how ideas that finally win the day go through 4 phases: 1st, they are simply ignored; 2nd, they are ridiculed; 3rd, they are strongly opposed; and 4th, they triumph.”
What makes Ben Arment cringe makes me cringe too.
I want to [...]
Another Moleskine has been filled up, and I started breaking in a new one yesterday. Enough people have asked how I use mine, so I thought I would share exactly how I set up and use my Moleskine journal. With each one I have found better ways to make it work, so here is the [...]
Proselytism and evangelism are not the same thing. To proselytize is to convert somebody else to our opinions and culture, and to squeeze him into our mould; to evangelize is to proclaim God’s good news about Jesus Christ to the end that people will believe in him, find life in him and ultimately be conformed [...]
I’ve been sketching this out in my journal for a few weeks now, sharing it with leadership, and finally this morning at our worship gathering I laid it out for everyone; a vision for our church’s ministry to our community. This is a very simple paradigm that encompasses all that we are doing (in terms [...]